Week 7: Harbor x SCAD

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02/24/2023:

Particle Updates:

First, I have to edit the curve path because of the changes to the layout to prevent intersections.

• After this, I began making my colors pinker as suggested in the last critique, and I also added a variation of pink color to the main particle stream

• I then rendered the inner swirl and outer swirl separately so they could be edited separately in the comp if needed.

• I used the flowers as mattes to block out particles behind them. When the particles are layered over the scene, the motion-blurred ones don't seem as crazy.

Main Particles Stream:

Outer Particle Stream:

Both Streams Combined:

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02/23/2023:

Shot 3 and 4 arrangement and camera updates:

I made the flowers so the camera can be moved, and the flowers look good from different angles, as stated during the critique. We are now able to use the same flower setup for shots 3 and 4, saving a lot of time in the long run.

Below are the flip books for shots 3 and 4:

Shot 3: the final shot will have a very shallow depth of field on the foreground elements which then refocuses on the bottle in the background. (When the leaves are full poly you don't see the backdrop)

Shot 4: the final shot will have the particles in the render. The flipbook of the particles was not representative of the particle's motion.

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02/22/2023:

Fern and Eucalyptus Cache Issues:

• The fern and eucalyptus caches did not have the proper grouping when being read into the whole scene file

Solution:

• In my original plant build files I was accidentally deleting the groups for texting when deleting my attributes before exporting to clean up the file

• To fix this all I had to do was exclude those attributes from my attribute delete node before exporting

Fern Texture Updates:

• I decided I wasn't happy with the mega scan I chose for the fern leaf so I found a new one and replaced it

• During this process, I realized when my leaves were being instanced onto half of the plant upside down, I realized I had accidentally copied an extra point wrangle onto the instancing section, flipping the leaf twice all I had to do was delete the node and it was fixed

New Fern Render:

• The new fern leaves make the plant look more accurate in comparison to a real fern plant.

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02/21/2023:

Week 7 Feedback:

- Shot 1:

- Cut!

- Shot 2:

- Stagger the flower animation, so it isn't so uniform.

- Have just the flower buds bloom rather than the complete unravel

- Use as lighting reference for shots 3 and 4

- Shot 3 & 4:

- Way more flowers (full and abundant)

- Make it so it can look good from different angles (the Flowers)

- No empty negative space

- Make the particles more pinkish and less orange